William Bullock

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William Bullock

copy attributed to Silvester (Sylvester) Harding, after Thomas Johnson
watercolour, late 18th century, based on a work of circa 1710
8 in. x 6 1/2 in. (203 mm x 165 mm)
Purchased, 1932
Primary Collection
NPG 2540

Sitterback to top

William Bullock (before 1667-1742), Comedian. Sitter in 2 portraits.

Artistsback to top

Silvester (Sylvester) Harding (1745-1809), Artist; publisher. Artist associated with 218 portraits.
Thomas Johnson (1708-1767), Mezzotinter. Artist associated with 5 portraits.

Related worksback to top

NPG D910: William Bullock (based on same portrait)

Linked publicationsback to top

Ingamells, John, Later Stuart Portraits 1685-1714, 2009, p. 34
Piper, David, Catalogue of Seventeenth Century Portraits in the National Portrait Gallery, 1625-1714, 1963, p. 44
Saywell, David; Simon, Jacob, Complete Illustrated Catalogue, 2004, p. 87

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Events of 1710back to top

Current affairs

Clergyman Henry Sacheverell is impeached on account of his sermons in which he attacks the Whig government and the revolution settlement of 1688-9. The trial caused rioting, and revived Jacobites sentiments and resentment against the government.
Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford, returns to Parliament as Chancellor of the Exchequer.

Art and science

The Examiner, a Tory government propaganda journal devised by Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford and Henry St. John, Viscount Bolingbroke, is published. Under its editor, Jonathan Swift, the weekly sheet defended the policies of the new Tory government. The Whigs responded with The Medley, principally written by Arthur Maynwaring.

International

Following the victories at the Battles of Almenara and Saragossa in the War of the Spanish Succession, the allied forces experience a set back at the Battle of Brihuega during which, James Stanhope, Earl of Stanhope, Commander in Chief of the British Forces in Spain, is taken prisoner.

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